Most of the Mojave crowd got the space bug as kids launching backyard model rockets or, like Rutan, watching Wernher von Braun explain Mars missions on The Walt Disney Show. Not Branson. He became interested in extraplanetary travel watching Jane Fonda in Barbarella as a teenager. “I saw it again when I was 21. I’d just been circumcised for health reasons, and I popped my stitches.”

Wired 13.01: Rocket Man, Virgin Galactic

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